What do you do with a wrinkled t-shirt?

Jul 3, 2012 3:36 PM

I came home from some early morning emergency calls, and needed to change my shirt. You've probably been in a similar situation where you have some clean clothes laying in a pile. You pick one up, and it's wrinkled.. but clean! I grabbed a t-shirt (a shirt.woot shirt), and it's wrinkly. I just threw it on in the hopes the wrinkles will magically work themselves out.

What would you do? Would choose another shirt? Iron it? Maybe throw it in the dryer for a few minutes? Or, just throw the shirt on and go?

Washing and drying is the easy part of doing laundry. I'm pretty lazy about folding or hanging clothes up afterwards. Often times, the clothes will sit in the dryer until I need to do another load. I have to turn the dryer on again to get the wrinkles out. A waste of electricity and it's rougher than need be on the clothes, but I'm too lazy to be bother by such rational arguments for hanging the clothes up right away.

My answer, toss the shirt in the dryer for a while. Add a damp (not wet) towel in there if the wrinkles are really bad. (or use the steam feature if you have a really fancy dryer)

Washing and drying is the easy part of doing laundry. I'm pretty lazy about folding or hanging clothes up afterwards. Often times, the clothes will sit in the dryer until I need to do another load. I have to turn the dryer on again to get the wrinkles out. A waste of electricity and it's rougher than need be on the clothes, but I'm too lazy to be bother by such rational arguments for hanging the clothes up right away.

My answer, toss the shirt in the dryer for a while. Add a damp (not wet) towel in there if the wrinkles are really bad. (or use the steam feature if you have a really fancy dryer)

If I am wearing a t-shirt, I am probably wearing a pair of cargo shorts with it, and quite frankly I am probably not leaving the house, and if I am it is to drive to a family members house.
This being said a few wrinkles do not bother me, if it is very wrinkly I will toss it back in the dryer to fluff out some of the bigger wrinkles, but seeing as how I hang my shirts as soon as the drying cycle ends, the wrinkles are typically not so large as to bother me.

-sorry about the poor grammar, English was never my strongest subject in school.

For a quick dewrinkle of a t-shirt I toss it in the dryer for 2-5 mins. Works well.

I personally don't care my self if it's wrinkled or not. The GF on the other hand hates it. Since we have started dating she has brought over an iron and board to iron our stuff before we go out.
I tell her before I take her home, if you want me to wear ironed clothes this week when we go out, then iron them before you leave because they won't get touched.

@kmeltzer: Oooo..that would be really cool if you had a shirt with a map of the Alps on it. It could be a topograhpical map without even meaning to be one! Of course, you'd have to make sure that the wrinkles were in the right place...or it could be a topographical map of bizzaro world where the Alps are really the low points and the oceans are up on top of the mountains!

Those laundry steamer balls that look like under water contact mines work wonders on wrinkly clothes (especially t-shirts). They only take a few mins and they work well. Steam in general seems to work the best (either a steamer ball or a garment steamer). Pretty quick and efficient.

@gt0163c: I bet the wrinkles wouldn't have to match, since few would get close enough to check it.

But, maybe there is an idea here. Just a line of shirts that are of topographical maps of various places, real and fake. And, when they get wrinkled, it's simply a way to have them "textured". People would be encouraged to not fold them after laundering. I think it would be a hit with the college kids.

You have to take the small amount of discipline to hang them immediately after the dryer stops. Cutting the cycle even 1/4+ short is usually no big deal. They'll probably be dry, but if not, they'll finish drying in your closet on a hanger. Never a wrinkle and always ready to rock.

However, if you find yourself in this situation again, throwing them back in the dryer for ~10 minutes helps remove wrinkles.

Last ditch effort, or if you're traveling, Downy Wrinkle Release. Smells good and it actually works. I have a little 3oz bottle take with me when I fly. Use it on T-shirts and polos. Button down shirts and slacks must be ironed. Sorry, but they're dressy clothes. Do yourself some justice. :-)

@kmeltzer: Excellent idea, but why stop at just t-shirts? There could be a whole line of topo map clothing: dress shirts that you're supposed to leave wrinkled! Jackets that it doesn't matter if you just ball them up and toss them in the back seat of your car for three days, cause, woo-hoo! more topographicalness! Topo map pants and shorts wouldn't be quite my cup of tea. But I'm sure there are people out there who wouldn't mind if someone is staring at the area below their belt trying to figure out if the San Fernando Valley really is supposed to be more wavy than the area around Mt Saint Helens.
I think we may have the next big fashion trend on our hands here!

I don't know.... My wife always takes care of them. I guess she takes them to the cleaners or maybe she irons them. That's why I always shower her with gifts from Woot. So I don't have to do anything with a wrinkled shirt.

I used to use Downy wrinkle releaser and could not live with out it.(my kids didn't know what an iron was until we stayed in a hotel) but found that regular water in a spray bottle will work just as well to remove the wrinkles. Trust me it really does work. The Downey stuff is nice because it has a nice smell but can be pricey. I have not ironed in years!

If no one is taking a shower in the next few minutes, I turn it inside out, slide it on a hanger, spritz it with the bottle of water I use on the kid's bed head, and the hit it with a hair dryer for a minute or two. The hanger allows you to help shake out the wrinkles as you dry it, and the inside out is to protect the printing on the Woot shirt. The resident 12 year old prefers Woot shirts, and has not quite grasped the whole putting away laundry bit, so this is a life skill we are working on for his college years.

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